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bobble

00:45

anyone want to play Contact?

merrybot

i'm terrible at it lol

bobble

we need people, though

currently only 2 attackers

merrybot

Sphinx

Q: Who is the king of social media?

My prefix is the sound of shots. My infix is when one gets shot My suffix is a round thing. My whole is a media king.

1 hour later…

Gareth McCaughan

01:58

oh ho ho ho. @msh210, solution to your CCCC is not quite CLEVER DICK as per oAlt's suggestion, but the CLEVER part is right. "Asperger" clues the first name of the guy the syndrome is named after, giving us CLEVER HANS, a "stable genius?" -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans. (The question mark is appropriate indeed.)

oAlt

02:25

ooh heh

I'd say that clue was quite clever as well :0

Deusovi

02:52

ha!

matt

03:20

when in doubt: don't try watching strange evidence at 7pm.

bobble

03:44

@Deusovi, are you available for checking current draft of the Chain Puzzle cryptics?

Deusovi

not tonight, sorry - have a presentation for class tomorrow

bobble

okay, that's fine! would you be available during my morning (~12 hours from now)?

Deusovi

04:42

@bobble hm, not sure - i think i'm decently busy tomorrow but i can try to get to it?

bobble

I can drop an OTS link here, and you could save it for later if you get time

Prince North Læraðr

05:36

I'm using a tutoring site that my school has graciously provided, and urm, Deus, Bobble and gareth are cough better

Maybe I'm being a bit unfair, because they are experiencing "high volume" of ppl, but my tutor is taking forever to respond

Bubbler

Yeah, I guess it happens with most well-known blahblahtutor sites

Prince North Læraðr

Anyone free to help me out? It's Taylor series but a really basic version of it

bobble

sure?

Prince North Læraðr

Okay I'll be at the grove

jafe

a high volume of people could just be one very large person

oAlt

05:53

Can't argue with his assessment

msh210

@GarethMcCaughan Correct, of course!

@oAlt thanks; nice finding half of it!

bobble

@Deusovi, OTS link in case you have time. Please no one else click.

9 hours later…

Sphinx

14:43

Q: 3D cryptic brain-melter

An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids This is a three-dimensional cryptic crossword. The seven squares in the picture depict the layers of a 7x7x7 cube. The "away" clues run through these layers, starting from the top-left square in the picture. Across 1. In Irela...

cryptic-crosswords three-dimensional

jafe

3d cryptic is up!

man, so far this FTC has not inspired the same kind of participation as the previous one

Deusovi

14:56

yeah, that's a shame

i've got something in the works that may fit the FTC theme - no promises that it'll be out by then though

bobble

15:14

@jafe I want to make one, but I don't know if I'll have time, since I spent a few days on the Chain Puzzle

Avi

15:25

I wanted to make one, but lazy

Stiv

15:37

@jafe I've been working on one all week which is proving really hard to put together with some hugely limiting constraints! I've got ideas for 2 or 3 more but novel full crosswords are so much more time-demanding than connecting walls... Not sure I'll get more than one done this time, but let's see!

matt

goooood morning

bobble

Just a note: my ability to get online will be spotty for a while, but I'll try to check in at least once a day.

(starting tomorrow)

matt

why is that?

bobble

15:52

Extremely socially distanced road trip

Prince North Læraðr

Have a math test in 7 minutes!!!!

So much anxiety right now

bobble

VIRTUAL HUGS

did you ever figure out the math thing?

Prince North Læraðr

I have a feeling it might've been "guess-and-check"

Bc that's how we've treated the entirety of the Taylor series

bobble

that's a poor way to learn math

Prince North Læraðr

It is

3 minutes....

breathe

bobble

15:58

Nov 4 at 1:27, by bobble

Prince North Læraðr

Such cursed image :P

bobble

It's very useful

Rand al'Thor

16:24

Not sure if anyone's said this yet ...

Congratulations @hexomino on overtaking @GarethMcCaughan to reach the #3 reputation spot!

Looks like we're going to have two new six-figure rep users soon.

bobble

ooh, I hadn't noticed!

jafe

within striking distance of 100k too!

bobble

then I'm at 4.3k

matt

@bobble to where?

bobble

I'm not actually sure - I think I forgot. Parents know where we're going, and that's enough

Gareth McCaughan

16:35

Seems I'm going to have to step up my game.

matt

Prince North Læraðr

17:08

I'm going to be ranting in my Grove

2 hours later…

Stiv

18:51

puzzling.stackexchange.com/posts/105053/revisions

Did anyone else find the edit as funny as I did? Proper laughed out loud! (Not at the original message - see the edit in 2...)

Only on Puzzling...

bobble

"page not found"

that's a 10k link

jafe

someone posted what seems like a random keyboard smash as an answer, and another user edited the answer to... add spoiler tags

Prince North Læraðr

Hehe, that's funny

jafe

"thanks, it's great now!" :P

bobble

oh, I saw that - just flagged as VLQ and moved on

matt

19:25

@jafe you never know,maybe they answered in klingon ... petaQ /s

3 hours later…

oAlt

22:21

I've started to plan an entry for FTC too

bobble

I know what I want to make, just haven't had time to actually construct it yet

Puzzling Meta

23:20

Q: If my question is closed, should I add my answer to my question?

My question was closed as inviting speculative answers. I'm willing to accept that; empirically this was true. I've decided against attempting to modify it to be fit for reopening. In that scenario, how does the puzzling.SE community prefer the solution be shared? Do not share the solution. I...